A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 474
lian half tlie width of thenave, liave modern tunnel-vaults brokenby lunettes. The tribune is extendedtoward the nave by straight walls tangeiitto the curve of the apse. Its semi-domeis covered with splendid mosaics of theend of the xiii cent., by Torriti, who alsoexecuted those in the apse of St.… … Fig. 191.—Rome ■. . color til the thought that the old mosaicbackground of perliaps the v cent, wasleft undisturbed. Below are seen, on theinside only, the pointed windows cut inthe apse in the xui century. On the faceof the triumphal arch and the walls of the nave are older mosaics, rei^resenting…
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